Apr 15th, 2021
1 min
The Federation has received information that because of the recent issue with the Suez Canal, experts in the container industry are forecasting that due to the blockage many container ships were delayed and then released en-masse caused a surge of ships going through the canal.
They are advising this will lead to severe congestion in European Ports in the coming weeks. This may mean some containers will be unloaded at different Ports than originally intended.
Given members are already seeing issues, especially Felixstowe, this development is unwelcome.
